Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , some may affect me one way , the next person they ask , affected another way , so they get two different opinions , do n't they . |
| 2 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 3 | Humans ought to thank me . |
| 4 | But you may think me merely biased if I say that my own father could in many ways be considered to rank with such men , and that his career is the one I have always scrutinized for a definition of ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 5 | And Herbert , you may think me lucky . |
| 6 | Another , who works in a uniform all day , said how important her earrings were , and the short dreadlocks under her hat ; how she felt they were making a statement for her , something like : you may think I 'm an ordinary , boring nurse , but my hair and my earrings give you the clues ; this is what I 'm like out of my uniform , I 'm different , I 'm me . |
| 7 | I daresay you find this strange and may think I am ungrateful when after all I have been given the chance to set up for myself which is not given to many of our station but it is a surprise to me too . |
| 8 | You may think I am exaggerating but I am telling you the truth as clearly as I remember it and I remember it very clearly . |
| 9 | You may think I 'm bad enough , but Slorne ! |
| 10 | You may think I 'm joking I do n't go abroad for my holidays , I go to Norfolk . |
| 11 | Now do n't take that too literally , certainly in sub zero temperatures and I think the first of December and to do so would I think er have er maybe with some risk of being in 's phrase stark raving bonkers but by that you may think I mean that I think we made a fair attempt to deal with the three principle issues which have caused so much annoyance to user groups , there 's a backlog in modification orders . |
| 12 | ‘ You may think I fell apart and did n't handle myself very well . ’ |
| 13 | Many people may think I am rather strange in comparing two horror books . |
| 14 | and leave you free to do a job , because you may think I mean , believe it or I 've turned this room inside out today ! |
| 15 | I think you ought to go I 'll get you going real quick . |
| 16 | O God give me the strength to be victorious over myself , for nothing may chain me to this life . |
| 17 | With regard to the now unimportant four percent increase which then if you may made I 'm sure councillors deny it and if we are to believe the reason that we have to bring our rents to this level is because government policy so dictates that we shall do . |
| 18 | He may throw me among strangers . |
| 19 | I may want me to go and do it now ? |
| 20 | That you may grant me grace . |
| 21 | He may make me feel desolate , make my spirits sink , hide my future from me … still … |
| 22 | It may make me sound as if I 'm in training for a Blue Peter badge , but it works . |
| 23 | That learned attitude in its turn may make me uncomfortably edgy and aggressive when situations . |
| 24 | This view of scientific theories may make me an instrumentalist or a positivist — as I have said above , I have been called both . |
| 25 | Let me go , and if I run my head into a hornet 's nest you may disown me . ’ |
| 26 | She ought to know I would n't do that . |
| 27 | Oh right said Daryl and Elsie you ought to know I suppose any way , I 'd suspect you 'd like a sister , it 's nice having one . |
| 28 | Though , as I say , this is very much a matter of personal taste and is not a ‘ rule ’ and there are some patterns in the electronic packs which may tempt me to change my preferences . |
| 29 | Yet our eyes lingered , and hers conveyed both an indication and a warning : Subtlety may win me , but force never will . |
| 30 | You may trust me , Mortals . ’ |